Oxford University’s Cyber Research
The cyber revolution is the revolution of our time. The rapid expansion of cyberspace in society brings both promise and peril. It promotes new modes of political cooperation, but it also disrupts interstate dealings and empowers subversive actors who may instigate diplomatic and military crises.
Despite significant experience with cyber incidents, the conceptual apparatus to analyse, understand, and address their effects on international order remains primitive.
The Stuxnet operation against Iran, the cyberattacks against Sony Pictures, and the disruption of the 2016 US presidential election, to make sense of the contemporary technological revolution.
The Centre for Technology and Global Affairs produces research on the transforming impact of modern technology on international relations, government, and society.
Based at Oxford University’s Department of Politics and International Relations, it is the first global research initiative focusing on the study of technology in a political science department at any of the world’s major universities.
The Centre seeks to create a new body of knowledge on the political and social impact of ongoing technological changes and to apply these new understandings to the guidance of policy practice.
The Centre’s research is wide ranging. Faculty, researchers, and associates explore developments across a broad spectrum of technological dimensions, including cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and robotics.
Connections between our researchers and the wider world of government and industry are at the heart of our impact mission.
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